September 9

Today in History
• 1543 - Mary Stuart, at nine months old, is crowned "Queen of Scots"
• 1570 - Nicosia falls to the Ottomans, an estimated 20,000 citizen are massacred
• 1675 - New England colonies declare war on Wampanoag indians
• 1753 - 1st steam engine arrives in north American colonies
• 1776 - Congress officially renames the country as the United States of America
• 1839 - English scientist and astronomer John Herschel takes 1st glass plate photograph
• 1850 - California is admitted as the thirty-first state of the Union
• 1850 - Territories of New Mexico and Utah created


Holidays - Traditional and Obscure
• California Admission Day
• Free Dentistry Day
• German Language Day
• International Sudoku Day
• Tajikistan Independence Day
• Teddy Bear Day
• Heritage Open Days
• Toronto International Film Festival

Birthdays
• 384 - Flavius Honorius, Eastern Roman Republic emperor (395-423)
• 1349 - Albert III, Duke of Austria (1365-95)
• 1466 - Ashikaga Yoshitane, 10th Japanese shogun of the Ashikaga shogunate
• 1585 - Armand Jean du Plessicide de Richelieu, premier of France (1624-42)
• 1754 - William Bligh, British naval commander (mutinied against on HMS Bounty)
• 1755 - Benjamin Bourne, politician (U.S. House of Representatives from Rhode Island)
• 1878 - Sergio Osmeña, 4th President of the Philippines
• 1918 - Oscar Luigi Scalfaro, Italian President (1992-99)